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Moon vs Mars: Trump's NASA pick faces tough questions on agency's future
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's nominee to lead NASA, entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, will face questions from senators on Wednesday about on how to balance Trump's focus ...
Apr 09, 2025
US company resurrects the extinct dire wolf, or some version of it
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The dire wolf was one of the most formidable predators in the Americas during the last Ice Age, possessing a body more stout and a skull more robust than those of...
Apr 08, 2025
Trump NASA nominee says agency will prioritize Mars mission
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA will tell senators on Wednesday that the agency will prioritize a Mars mission, while noting that most U.S space programs are over budg...
Apr 08, 2025
Russian spacecraft docks with the ISS, Roscosmos says
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft, carrying Russian cosmonauts Russians Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA's Jonathan Kim, has docked with the ISS, Russia's s...
Apr 08, 2025
Spacecraft carrying Russians and American takes off from Baikonur cosmodrome
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A spacecraft carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday en route to the International Space Station (ISS...
Apr 08, 2025
Trump's NASA nominee backs US moon program in talks with lawmakers, sources say
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead NASA has assured lawmakers that returning astronauts to the moon would remain the agency's main strategy, quelling concerns that ...
Apr 07, 2025
Study strengthens link between maternal diabetes and autism
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) -A large new study adds to evidence that diabetes during pregnancy is linked with an increased risk of brain and nervous system problems in children, including autism, researc...
Apr 07, 2025
Astronomers spot two white dwarfs doomed to die in a quadruple detonation
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear destined to die in an extraordinarily vi...
Apr 07, 2025
Exclusive-SpaceX, ULA expected to clinch multibillion-dollar contract in key Pentagon launch program
By Marisa Taylor and Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX and United Launch Alliance are expected to each win a U.S. Space Force rocket launch contract on Friday worth billions of do...
Apr 04, 2025
SpaceX's private Fram2 crew returns to Earth after polar-orbiting mission
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Four private astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule on Friday, after roughly four days orbiting Earth in a novel polar trajectory, capping the Elon Mus...
Apr 04, 2025
